Megapolis: Infrastructure Buildings

Update 06/04/14: Pet Dinosaur Shop, Westminster Abbey, Tower of Hercules, and other buildings were nerfed.  You can read about them in my post.



In this section, we will examine some of the highest coin yielding buildings that do not involve contracts.  The beauty of these buildings is that you can log in and collect at our leisure without the risk of a contract expiring.  Looking at the coin rate you earn per square occupied, infrastructure buildings are still going to give you less money per hour per square than most buildings that involve contracts.

The Table:

**Note: The [coins/hour] and [cRate/square] values assume that you are logging in and collecting your money from the building as soon as it is ready.

New table 06/04/14:

Old table before nerfs:

Long Term:

If you can afford them, Kingkey 101 is now the most profitable infrastructure building.  Released on 04/18/14, it has coin rate per square rate of 1181 which is almost triple that of the runner up (Changzhou).

If you're thinking "I don't log in every 4 hours, so I would prefer Changzhou which takes 8 hours to generate income.", I will show you why Kingkey is still the best.

I changed my table to see what Kingkey's rates would be if you took 8 hours to log in and collect.  The coin rate compared to Changzhou is still almost 50% more.

While this is good news, it makes me regret buying 24 Changzhou Modern Media Centers right after they were released which wasn't long before they introduced the Kingkey 101.


Outdated 04/18/14:
Currently, the very best infrastructure building is the Changzhou Modern Media Center.  The coinrate/square is 409.38 which blows every other infrastructure building out of the water.

Outdated:
If you log in every 4 hours, the best building to make money is the Westminster Abbey.  With a coin rate per hour per square of 175.7, it is almost as good as having Research Centers and continuously completing the Nanotubes contract.

If you log in every 9 hours, the best building for you is the House of Music.  Although it has a higher initial cost and a longer return of investment (ROI), you don't have to log in as often and per square you are still earning 170.4 coins per hour.

Short Term:

Outdated 06/04/14:
For the short term (quicker ROI, lower initial cost), the very best infrastructure building you can buy is the Pet Dinosaur Shop.  Sporting a hefty 161.7 coins per hour per square and a ROI of only 9.7 days, you will find yourself massing coins very quickly.